---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enforcement of deceptive consumer sales act."
description: "Provides that certain actions to remedy a deceptive act may not be brought more than five years after the deceptive act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1504"
citation: "Indiana HB 1504 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL", "CIVIL ACTIONS generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Messmer", "Mike Speedy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c929526-18c3-473d-bb8c-9d722041a132"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1504"
source_hash: "7793cc72c7e13d9b68de0f18bc4df192a20d322291cc8debcbc67b286d5c0173"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana HB 1504 (2023) — Enforcement of deceptive consumer sales act.

Provides that certain actions to remedy a deceptive act may not be brought more than five years after the deceptive act.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1504/versions/HB1504.05.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1504/versions/HB1504.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1504/versions/HB1504.03.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1504/versions/HB1504.04.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1504/versions/HB1504.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1504 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Mike Speedy — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-17** Authored by Representative Speedy
- **2023-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
- **2023-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 189: yeas 65, nays 28 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
- **2023-02-22** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 376: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-18** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-18** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 446: yeas 92, nays 1
- **2023-04-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-25** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Public Law 152 `became-law`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c929526-18c3-473d-bb8c-9d722041a132`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).